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Testing that Firebase APIs are enabled for Chromebooks (15.4+)

What

When setting up Chromebooks you need to ensure that the right APIs are enabled. In FileWave 15.4 there are 2 APIs that are required that were not previously needed. You may have these enabled, but in order to test this we have a script that you can run for your On-Premise server. For Hosted customers this would have to be run by SupportSupport, but we may also contact Hosted customers who show it not enabled, and have Chromebooks. 

When/Why

NowYou will want to run this when you are using FileWave 15.4.0 or higher with Chromebooks to check that weeverything knowis whatright. You definately need to enable the 2 APIs if you have not previously. You can enable them and run this functiontest ison useda for,15.3.1 when/whyserver wouldas wewell, usebut it?they are required for 15.4.0 and beyond.

How

AndConnect now,to sinceyour weFileWave Server and paste the below in the console window. This will download a zip file from this KB and run it and let you know if everything else,is how do we use this function to do something special?good.

curl -sL https://kb.filewave.com/attachments/349 | sh

When you run it if the output looks like below then everything is great already:

[centos@ip-172-30-3-201 ~]$ curl -sL https://kb.filewave.com/attachments/349 | sh

Downloading and Extract Archive...
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `LIBARCHIVE.xattr.com.apple.metadata:kMDItemTextContentLanguage'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `LIBARCHIVE.xattr.com.apple.metadata:kMDItemKeyphraseVersion'
Done

Installing Dependencies...
Done

Running the test...

You're ready to upgrade to FileWave v15.4.0

If instead you see the below then you need to take take action:

WARNING!
You're not ready to migrate to FileWave v15.4.0
              
You need to enable the following APIs in your Google project:
    - Firebase Cloud Messaging API
    - Firebase Management API
              
Go to https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/dashboard to enable them

You may go to https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/dashboard and enable them as the text indicates. A more direct URL to add them to a project is https://console.developers.google.com/flows/enableapi?apiid=firebase.googleapis.com,fcm.googleapis.com which should be straightforward if you only have 1 Firebase project. If you don't really know how Chromebooks were setup in the past you could go through Chromebook Client Pre-Requisites and set it up again.

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